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in a wireless LAN environment. See the explanations below for more details, and before making an
activation of any new settings, click
Apply
. To leave the window, click
OK
. To undo the new settings,
select the
Cancel
button.
Note:
Choosing the
WEP Encryption
command from the right-click menu of
WLAN PRISM3 IEEE802.11b
tray icon will launch this tab too.
Figure 4.3 -4: The
Encryption
Tab
Encryption (WEP security)
If you choose
Disabled
from the pull-down list, you will have the wireless LAN USB stick
communicated with all stations within the same networking community without any data encryption.
Otherwise, two key lengths are offered:
64 bit
and
128 bit
.
Specify a preferred one from the two, so
that you may use the identical WEP key to make a communication with the chosen access point.
Create Key Manually
Once you set the
Encryption
type as
64 bit
or
128 bit
, you may choose to edit WEP keys manually
or create them via the passphras e of your wireless network. If you choose the
Create Key Manually
option, you may directly enter up to 4 WEP keys for use in WEP encryption. To generate the WEP
keys, please define the key entry method as
Alphanumeric
or
Hexadecimal
(for hexadecimal
characters, only digits 0-9 and letters A-F are valid). Then edit the texts in the blank fields below,
from
Key 1
to
Key 4
, as the encryption codes. Note that these codes/keys shall be identical between
the wireless nodes within the range and the access point only. Check the table below to find valid
key length of each encryption type:
64 bit
128 bit
Alphanumeric
5
characters
13 characters
Hexadecimal
10 digits
26 digits
